£15 for the week...help me decide what to buy with your best cheap tips!

[noonki]

...After christmas and a bit of a over estimate when we splashed out on a laptop (it was in the sales...we really needed it for work....Okay okay we were rubbish with our money) we are skint

anyway bottom line is for the next 6 days we only have £20 - a fiver will have to go on petrol to get to work but the rest is for food.

We have a food cupboard with:
rice
lentils (yellow and red)
pasta (glutenfree and normal)
oil
tins of toms/sweetcorn/chickpeas/butterbeans/baked beans
lots of herbs/ketchup/mustard etc
flour (plain/glutenfree)
oats
cornflakes
raisins
a lots of jam/honey/marmite
a big bar of aldi dark chocolate
some jelly babies and biscuits (phew)

in the fridge we have:
butter
a salami
some pesto

in the freezer we have:
frozen peas
2 salmon filets
frozen salmon
frozen chickpeas

we have 2 toddlers and my veggie 12 year old dss will be with us this weekend

I am wheatfree but we eat most things except dss and his meat/fish!

milk is delivered so we can hold off payment till next week. Breakfast is porridge and we have loads of oats.

help me decide what to buy so I can make six lots of lunch and dinners (breakfast is porridge so and we have loads of oats) - lunch is only me and the kids mainly.

any

ps I hate baked beans but needs must and all that I will suffer!

Eggs
Potatoes (can do a tortilla with these)

Cheese

Some salad

A cabbage

Do a sort of stew with your pulses and tinned toms-no nned to buy baked beans

with some spuds could you make a fish pie out of the salmon. Add some veg to the sauce to bulk it out a bit?
Jacket potatoes are always good too - we are eating a lot of them this month too!

I would make savoury rice one night - fry an onion - add some rice and stir round then bung in tin of tomatoes and some stock or water and simmer for 20 inutes or so until rice is cooked. Add a tin of sweetcorn and some frozen peas. My family would just eat this for a meal by itself (my dd loves it) but you could always add some bacon or chicken to perk it up a bit.
Another night I would have pasta and pesto (again you can add whatever bits you like).
Another night I would put your chickpeas, baked beans (you won't taste them in this!), butterbeans and a tin of tomatoes in a dish and cook in the oven with some chilli powder. You cna add onions and peppers but you don't really need them if you are economising! Your salami would be lovely in there too!
I find salmon goes furthest in a pasta sauce or lasagne as you only need one fillet to feed the family (or maybe I am just tight??)
Hope that helps a bit

so already I have six dinners:

1.fish pie
2.pasta and salmon
3.pasta and pesto
4.Jacket tatties (just found two tins of tuna) so that could be a lunch and a dinner.
5.Savory rice (never tried but sounds good)
6.stew with cabbage as aside (DH fav)

Lunch

1. tatties and tuna
2. leftover fish pie
3. tortilla and salad
4. boiled eggs
5. chickpeas and chilli toms
6. a mismash of leftovers!

so all I need to buy is tatties, some salad, eggs, cheese, cabbage, carrots, onion, and some fruit.

wow can't believe so sorted it all out whilst I got the kids to bed! thanks

Sounds good!

Fried rice also great.

Use any leftover rice.
First, fry onions and any tired old veg hanging about (all chopped up small.) Any errant slices of bacon or similar can be chopped small and added.

Beat 2/3 eggs in a bowl and add some soy.When veggies and rice hot, add the egg mixture and stir through.

Add chillie sauce to taste.

It's great.

thanks moondog, sounds delicious (and easy as I am Jamie Oliver)

It can be lunch no6

You'll need some bread as well won't you? If you have a friend with a breadmaker ask them to make you a couple of loaves and you'll pay them back after pay day!

I mean No Jamie Oliver obviously!